Word: wh
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...Wh-wh-why?" stammered...
...Bowdoin Square I boarded a Broadway car. At the bridge the conductor entered, and asked me if I was a Harvard graduate. I admitted that I was. Without a word more, he presented me with a small chromo. "Wh-what's this for?" I stammered. "Why, sir, all ride free now, and graduates of the College receive chromos. Every student is presented with a cabinet photograph of the Registrar...
...such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these peculiarities still linger among Bostonians...